IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD FOR IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM

• US 20190320076A1
• Filed: 06/26/2019
• Published: 10/17/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 01/07/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Canon Kabushiki Kaisha (Canon Inc.)
• Inventors: Shogaki, Yohei
• Granted Patent: US 11,057,532 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2203/04806 Zoom, i.e. interaction techniques or interactors for controlling the zooming operation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04845 for image manipulation, e.g. dragging, rotation, expansion or change of colour
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00392 Other manual input means, e.g. digitisers or writing tablets
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00411 the display also being used for user input, e.g. touch screen
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/0044 for image preview or review, e.g. to help the user position a sheet
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 1/00469 with enlargement of a selected area of the displayed information
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 2201/0094 Multifunctional device, i.e. a device capable of all of reading, reproducing, copying, facsimile transception, file transception

Abstract

In response to a start of a pinch-out operation in a first display area displaying a preview image, display is switched from a first display mode to a second display mode, and in a case where a pinch-in operation in the first display area ends and a display size of the preview image reaches a predetermined threshold, the display is switched from the second display mode to the first display mode.

Claims

1. An image processing apparatus, comprising:

a touch panel;

a detection unit configured to detect a user operation on the touch panel; and

a display control unit configured to switch between a first display mode and a second display mode,

wherein the first display mode is a mode in which a first display area and a second display area are displayed, the first display area is an area where a preview image is displayed, the second display area is an area that is different from the first display area and includes at least a function key for giving a print instruction for printing the preview image,

wherein the second display mode is a mode in which an enlarged preview image that is larger than the preview image in the first display mode is displayed and in which the second display area is not displayed;

wherein, upon detecting by the detection unit that a distance between at least two input instruction objects has increased from a state in which the preview image displayed in the first display mode is touched with the at least two input instruction objects, the display control unit switches to the second display mode by enlarging the preview image displayed in the first display area and by not displaying the second display area that was displayed in the first display mode.

2. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein, upon detecting by the detection unit that a distance between the at least two input instruction objects has decreased from a state in which the preview image displayed in the second display mode is touched with the at least two input instruction objects, the display control unit reduces the preview image displayed in the first display area, and

wherein, upon detecting a release of at least one of the at least two input instruction objects from the touch panel, the display control unit switches from the second display mode to the first display mode by displaying, in a same state as a state of display of the second display area in the first display mode, the second display area that is not displayed or displayed with a reduction.

3. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein, when in the second display mode, upon detecting a release of at least one of the at least two input instruction objects from the first display area and if display size of the preview image reaches a predetermined threshold, the display control unit switches from the second display mode to the first display mode.

4. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the display control unit displays an enlargement key for enlarging the preview image,

wherein selection of the enlargement key causes enlargement of the preview image, and

wherein the enlargement key is displayed in the first display mode and the second display mode.

5. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the display control unit displays the preview image such that a center position of the preview image in the first display mode is same as a center position of the preview image in the second display mode.

6. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1,

wherein the second display area includes either one or both of a change button for changing a page of the preview image displayed in the first display area and a delete button for deleting a page corresponding to the preview image displayed in the first display area.

7. The image processing apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising:

a scanning unit configured to generate an image by scanning a document.

8. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to operate as an image processing apparatus that includes a touch panel, the operation comprising:

detecting a user operation on the touch panel; and

performing display control to switch between a first display mode and a second display mode,

wherein the first display mode is a mode in which a first display area and a second display area are displayed, the first display area is an area where a preview image is displayed, the second display area is an area that is different from the first display area and includes at least a function key for giving a print instruction for printing the preview image,

wherein the second display mode is a mode in which an enlarged preview image that is larger than the preview image in the first display mode is displayed and in which the second display area is not displayed;

wherein, upon detecting in the detection that a distance between at least two input instruction objects has increased from a state in which the preview image displayed in the first display mode is touched with the at least two input instruction objects, the display control switches to the second display mode by enlarging the preview image displayed in the first display area and by not displaying the second display area that was displayed in the first display mode.

9. A method for controlling an image processing apparatus that includes a touch panel, the method comprising:

detecting a user operation on the touch panel; and

performing display control to switch between a first display mode and a second display mode,

wherein the first display mode is a mode in which a first display area and a second display area are displayed, the first display area is an area where a preview image is displayed, the second display area is an area that is different from the first display area and includes at least a function key for giving a print instruction for printing the preview image,

wherein the second display mode is a mode in which an enlarged preview image that is larger than the preview image in the first display mode is displayed and in which the second display area is not displayed;

wherein, upon detecting in the detection that a distance between at least two input instruction objects has increased from a state in which the preview image displayed in the first display mode is touched with the at least two input instruction objects, the display control switches to the second display mode by enlarging the preview image displayed in the first display area and by not displaying the second display area that was displayed in the first display mode.